[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')f it was then Aramco HAS PROMISED that no IPO is currently planned. And won't be planned until conditions are right. And Aramco has not posted what it considers are the proper conditions or when they may ever develop.

[Plantagenet]

The Saudi Aramco IPO is back in the news. Prince Muhammad just said the IPO will happen in late 2020 or maybe in 2021.

saudi-crown-prince-slams-obama-praises-trump-claims-aramco-ipo-back

Prince Muhammad has ordered Saudi Aramco to complete the SABIC deal in 2019 and then shift their attention to the IPO and get it done in another year or two.

Prince Muhammad is a little fuzzy on the details of how these two huge deals will get done, but the timetable he has set for Saudi Aramco is pretty clear. If the IPO actually happens in 2020-21, it will be 4-5 years after the initial announcement of the IPO in January 2016.

Cheers!

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'I')t's a desert mirage. In the same class as 'as-yet-to-be-discovered' reserves. Camel dung.

[onlooker]

So Outcast, you have any evidence to refute the assertion of Pstarr. Or is this just another affront to your sensibilities and so you cry out Doomers. By the way, too expensive Oil will sink Economies so that is hardly a remedy for this IPO and for KSA and its Oil Industry

[onlooker]

Okay here is a matter of fact toned down article of the very real short and longer term problems of keeping production strong in the Permian

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... verheating

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')roven Crude Reserves . . . what a joke! Every time you say that I just split my pants

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')ractically anything with carbon, hydrogen and oxygen is oil . . . at the right price. I'll bet your buddies could upgrade whole wheat bread and call it dilbit if you paid them enough

[Yoshua]

Did someone say $40 oil?

[shortonoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')id someone say $40 oil?

[kublikhan]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Yoshua', 'D')id someone say $40 oil?

[onlooker]

FINANCIAL RED FLAGS FOR FRACKING
Despite rising oil prices, the red ink continues to flow for fracking companies


https://www.sightline.org/2018/10/17/us ... red-flags/

[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd we have just set a new backpedal record! Someone call Guinness!

[ROCKMAN]

From onlooker’s link: “…sub-groupings of oil-focused, gas-focused, and diversified companies all failed to cover their capital expenditures with internally generated cash flows. As a whole, these companies depleted $5 billion in cash reserves from January through June to keep capital projects on track while sustaining distributions to investors.”

And once again we have a child’s perspective of petroleum company investment profiles. I’ll use Rockman’s company as an example. A perfect example for two reasons: 1) it started only 10 years ago and thus had no heritage production/revenue; 2) it has never drilled/frac’d a shale well. The initial strategy was to drill deep NG prospects with significant condensate yields. In Year 1 it spent about $60 million and drilled a number of very successful wells mostly in south Louisiana. And did not borrowed one $1 to do so: owned by a billionaire. In Y2 spent about $80 million drilling. Did the company’s cash flow cover that $80 million budget? Of course not: that would have meant the Y1 wells generated a net $80 million. Having a well generate 100% of its cost in 12 months is great and does happen on rare occasions but it is far from the norm in the industry. As best as I can recall the estimated recovery of the $60 million spent on Y1 wells was projected to take 2.8 years.

Think about that for a moment: how many here have invested $X and made $X back in a year? That would represent 100% net revenue, right? And $ZERO PROFIT, right? Wait, how can that be: you invest $X and get $X back in 12 months and NO PROFIT? Yes, because until you make $X + $1 you have made NO PROFIT from your investment, right?

Now think about the investment profile of a petroleum company where the revenue stream of its investments take a number of years to net that capex spent to drill those wells. Back to Rockman’s company: 2.8 years after it invested that initial $60 million it had yet to make $1 profit on that $60 million investment, right? And obviously it had a huge negative cash flow after Y1 + Y2 having spent $140 million ($60 million + $80 million) but was still 1.8 years away from netting the initial $60 million Y1 investment, right?

So how good was that initial $60 million investment? IOW its rate of return. Easy to calculate: wait until all those wells deplete and take their revenue stream vs the time taken to recover and run the numbers. But can’t even do that calculation today: 2 of those wells are still producing. But can easily do it for each of the individual wells that have depleted. And all turned a profit. Just my rough guess but I would say an average 16% ROR. A 16% ROR is well above the historic industry average. Of course folks who get pissed off when they see the price at the pump or monthly NG bill would never believe that: those damn oil companies rip us off and make obscene profits. LOL. But that’s because their emotions blind them then to the reality.

Now consider this: how do you calculate the total profitability of Rockman’s company Y1 profitability after Y2 given the additional $80 million in capex invested? Obviously you can’t: you’re at least 1.8 years away from being able to even paying out the Y1 expenditure and even longer to reach the recovery of 100% of the Y2 expenditure let alone its profit.

OK, now you either understand why you can’t base the petroleum industry profitability on the revenue from any one year compared to how much it spent that year on new drilling. Or you don’t and will never be convinced of your ignorance or that of the writers on the onlooker’s article. So having done all I can I’ll just leave you to wallow in your own pit of self-righteous indignation. LOL.

BTW let me also point out that when oil patch optimism soars during a period of rising oil/NG prices it tends to increase borrowing to allow more drilling then its net revenue allows. Which can work out great…until it gets caught with it pants down when prices collapse.

[onlooker]

Actually, I have to admit the logic and math do seem to support Rockman's assessment. So, I was wrong to post it

[ROCKMAN]

looker - No, I'm glad you posted it. We see the same stupidity reported in many places...including here. And not trying to be insulting but the explanation I just posted is greatly simplified. In fact I suspect we'll see a post from Doc shortly chastising me for being overly simplified. LOL. As you point out the logic isn't that difficult to follow. But only IF you haven't swallowed the Kool-Aid and have an open mind. For those that have I won't waste our space here responding to them. They are lost causes IMHO.

Just think about what we see regularly posted here: the petroleum industry for the last 10 years has invested 100's of $billions in the unconventional plays and has been LOSING MONEY THE ENTIRE TIME. And the industry is still here. How do you have a constructive debate with anyone that truly believes that. After all, we aren't the federal govt. LOL.

[StarvingLion]

The Arabian Sun Belt is a fraud, people. Solar is not an energy source at all. KSA is going berserk because of the salt buildup in Ghawar forcing wells further into the field. Production at Ghawar will totally collapse in 2022 causing KSA to go instantly bankrupt. Thats why they are can kicking everything.

Solar Scam: Can Kick
IPO Scam: Can Kick
Reality: Can Kick

And just recently Russia said it would begin production of its shale in 2025. Thats supposed to save the Ghawar collapse. But Russia shale is not brittle, won't fracture....utterly totally hopeless.

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles ... gs.ePRx9Ys

Failure of ‘World’s Biggest Solar Project’ in Saudi Arabia Is No Surprise

There were concerns from the start.
Jason Deign October 02, 2018

[StarvingLion]

The truth is that KSA has to spend 100's of billions of dollars just to maintain current level of oil production.

They cannot even power 30 million air conditioners for their runaway welfare state.

The IPO was supposed to get the welfare state off the books of Aramco.

Aint gonna happen.

BW HillBilly will soon be unveiling The Wood Economy in his astounding latest book. Got Syngas vehicle?

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Yoshua', 'D')id someone say $40 oil?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'W')hat idiot would purchase shares in collapsing company?

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ') Now, analysts at Wood Mackenzie have conducted their own study of Saudi Aramco, and came up with a completely different (and much lower) figure. WoodMac puts Aramco’s true value closer to $400 billion, eighty percent less than the Saudi estimate, and it arrived at the figure by considering future demand and the anticipated average price of oil (on which profits will depend), as well as Saudi Aramco’s status as a state-run company.
Cooking The Books? Saudi Aramco Could Be Overvalued By 500%